Quotes About Computer Science

#1. I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

Kevin Systrom

#2. If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Rudy Rucker

#3. Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

Frederick Lenz

#4. My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.

Kevin Rose

#5. Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

David Chalmers

#6. I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

Donald Knuth

#7. Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.

Maria Klawe

#8. There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.

Megan Smith

#9. Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

Matt Blaze

#10. I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

J. Cole

#12. Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Steve Ballmer

#13. There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Hal Abelson

#14. As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school's computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.

Sheryl Sandberg

#15. I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Jaron Lanier

#16. I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

Satya Nadella

#17. Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

Frederick Lenz

#18. I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

Tony Hsieh

#19. But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

Leonard Adleman

#20. I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

Steve Jobs

#21. I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.

Watt Key

#22. Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Sergey Brin

#23. I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

#24. See, Berkeley has always drawn the nuts and flakes of the academic world. That's what happens when you have a university that offers degrees in both computer science and parapsychology.

Mira Grant

#25. Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club.

Ryan Holmes

#26. The truth is that computer science is not really about the computer. It is just a tool to help you see ideas more clearly.

Carlos Bueno

#27. When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Marissa Mayer

#28. People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Donald Knuth

#29. I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.

Aaron Patzer

#30. For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat.

Sheldon Adelson

#31. I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Rodney Brooks

#32. Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Edsger Dijkstra

#33. We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Jaron Lanier

#34. For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.

David Gelernter

#35. Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

Peter Landin

#36. We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.

Megan Smith

#37. I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

Mayer Hawthorne

#38. The most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed

Malcolm Gladwell

#39. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall

#40. Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#41. We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Philip Greenspun

#42. I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

Brendan Iribe

#43. I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

Gene Luen Yang

#44. There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

Jon Oringer

#45. I occasionally find myself debating with computer science colleagues whether work on the more applied side can form the basis for good academic computing research. In my view, it clearly can, as long as it yields something sufficiently novel and important concerning computing.

Paul S. Rosenbloom

#46. Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

Cordelia Fine

#47. Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

#48. Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

Jennifer Tour Chayes

#49. Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#50. I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

Endre Szemeredi

#51. The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Eric Schmidt

#52. Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

Nicholas Negroponte

#53. On second thought, this might not be spurious. Computer science doctorates vs. Comic book sales

Tyler Vigen

#54. He asked the class how many of us were taking computer science, and everybody but me and this one girl who didn't speak English raised their hands.

Ned Vizzini

#55. Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Randy Pausch

#56. Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

Marvin Minsky

#57. I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Donald Knuth

#58. I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

Frederick Lenz

#59. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Donald Knuth

#60. This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

Jerry Moran

#61. In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#62. She shrugged noncommittally. "Not bad."
Kyle scoffed. "Not bad? Counselor, there are two things I've got mad skills at: And computer science is the other one.

Julie James

#63. Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Perlis

#64. Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.

Randy Pausch

#65. When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

Bill Maris

#66. Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination.

Graham Moore

#67. Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Jim Horning

#68. I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

Judith Faulkner

#69. Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

Beth Simone Noveck

#70. In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

Brian Reid

#71. Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

Brad Feld

#72. Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Gerald J. Popek

#73. Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Eric Raymond

#74. Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science ...

Donald Knuth

#75. The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.

Steve Ballmer

#76. Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Clara Shih

#77. Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

Anita Borg

#78. I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Richard Stallman

#79. All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

Butler Lampson

#80. The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

William C. Brown

#81. Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.

Frederick Lenz

#82. Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.

Richard Hamming

#83. If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

Frederick Lenz

#84. Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.

Anita Borg

#85. Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

Harold Morowitz

#86. I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

Donald Knuth

#87. When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Jim McKelvey

#88. I'm basically a computer science nerd.

Rebecca Moore

#89. The noted Yale computer science professor Edward Tufte once observed that there are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: computer designers and drug dealers. Importantly, you are equally as likely to recover damages from either of them for the harms their products cause.

Marc Goodman

#90. ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

Tan Le

#91. My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#92. I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

Frederick Lenz

#93. My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

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Anonymous

#95. I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.

Marissa Mayer

#96. I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Mitchel Resnick

#97. I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

Kumail Nanjiani

#98. My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

#99. It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Will.i.am

#100. Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

Richard P. Feynman